(KRON) — President Donald Trump said on social media Sunday that he would help a right-wing Bay Area cartoonist who is suffering from cancer. On Monday, “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams said on X Sunday that he would “ask President Trump, through X, to help save my life.”
“He offered to help if I needed it,” Adams continued. “i need it.”
Adams, who lives in Pleasanton, revealed earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, similar to former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis.
“Some of you have already guessed, so this won’t surprise you all. But I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,” Adams said on a podcast in May. At the time, Adams said he only had months to live, telling his podcast audience: “I expect to be out of this business sometime this summer.”
Adams said Sunday that his condition was “declining rapidly,” and blamed his health care provider, Kaiser of Northern California, for dropping the ball with treatment. Adams explained that Kaiser approved his application for a new FDA-approved drug called Lovoco, but did not schedule him for treatment.
“I’m backing down fast,” he said. “I’ll ask President Trump if he can get the Northern California czar to respond and set a date for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stay on this planet a little longer.”
He added: “It is not a cure, but it gives good results for many people.”
President Trump tweeted, “On it!” In reply shortly. Members of the Trump administration also participated.
In response, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted: “Scott. How can I reach you? The President wants to help.”
Adams, 67, has been an outspoken supporter of President Trump.
Adams is the creator of the widely syndicated “Dilbert” comic strip. However, hundreds of newspapers dropped the cartoon after racist comments Adams made on YouTube, including calling black Americans a “racist hate group.”
He later said that his statements were taken out of context and that he was Trying to be controversial.
In May, when he announced his diagnosis, he offered words of support for former President Biden.
“I would like to express my respect, sympathy and sympathy to the former president and his family, because they are going through a particularly special time,” Adams said.